A BBC 5 radio host has been fired after tweeting a picture of a chimpanzee and stating it was the newly born royal baby.
Former host Danny Baker tweeted a picture of a chimpanzee, dressed in a suit, being lead by a man and a woman with the caption, “Royal baby leaves the hospital,” in reference to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. Archie is the newborn son to Prince Harry and his American, mixed-race wife Meghan Markle.
The tweet was later deleted, but not before it was screen captured.
Twitter users and digital news outlets such as Mediaite quickly denounced the radio host for tweeting the “racist image.”
Baker later tweeted it was an “enormous mistake,” but he would have used the same picture for any other member of the British royal family.
Now Sky at the door.
Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It’s a funny image. (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque.
Anyway, here’s to ya Archie, Sorry mate.#Occam #Razor— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019
Here we go.
Opened door, grinning Mail hack.
“Do you think black people look like monkeys?”
Any other time you’d knock someone right on their arse for saying that.
No mate. Gag pic. Posh baby chimp. Alerted to circs. Appalled. Deleted. Apologised.
He asks again! #MailonRacism— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019
“Just got fired from @bbc5live. For the record – it was red sauce. Always,” Baker then tweeted. He then said the calls to get him fired was “a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity.”
The call to fire me from @bbc5live was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity. Took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah. Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits knees knocking. #Fuckem
— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019
Baker has since tweeted out the theme song from Larry David’s show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019
